I'm trying to set up a new Perforce based project (using Perforce plugin version
1.0.3-SNAPSHOT) but it fails on first synchronization with a NullPointerException:

started
Performing sync with Perforce for:
//depot/IP_DEPOT/main/Construction/IP-Functions/ip-functions/...
Changing P4 Client Root to: C:\Documents and
Settings\LocalService\.hudson\jobs\IP functions\workspace\
Changing P4 Client View to:
//depot/IP_DEPOT/main/Construction/IP-Functions/ip-functions/...
//bjacobse_hudson/...
FATAL: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getLastChange(PerforceSCM.java:281)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:186)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:529)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:223)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:189)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:601)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:172)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:70)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:62)